Turkey to Join Saudi-Pakistan Defence Pact, Linking NATO's Second-Largest Army to Gulf Treaty

Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan will sign a trilateral defence pact on August 7, 2026, in Jeddah, per Saudi military and Turkish intelligence sources. The pact extends an existing Saudi-Pakistani mutual-defence treaty—treating an attack on one as an attack on all—to include Turkey, a NATO member with the alliance's second-largest standing army. How these new obligations interact with Turkey's NATO commitments remains unresolved.